Ingredients
  

  • 3 kg veal shoulder
  • 10 cl Arachide oil
  • 150 g Butter
  • 50 g Garlic
  • 3 branch thym
  • 2 g Pepper black
  • 3 l chicken stock
  • 75 g Butter
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch Pepper
  • INSTRUCTIES

Instructions
 

  • Cut the meat into 2 cm cubes. Fry them in hot oil over high heat. Do not stir at first, let the bottom brown well, then turn. Immediately scrape the crusts off the bottom. When the meat is completely browned all over, put it in a sieve to drain the oil.
  • Place the butter in the pan, the crushed garlic cloves, thyme and the crushed pepper. When the butter starts to foam, return the meat to the pan. Then pour over the liquid (water or chicken stock) until the meat is just covered. Reduce until completely dry and repeat this step.
  • Then add more water and reduce until half of the moisture has evaporated. Skim well every time. Then drain through a fine sieve and collect the gravy. Then set aside for further processing.
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Tomato coulis

Servings 4 personen

Ingredients
  

  • 1,5 dl olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic squashed
  • 60 g sjalots chopped
  • 1 pcs bouquet garni
  • 750 g ripe tomatoes or canned tomatoes
  • 1 tblsp tomato paste
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 6 pcs pepper corns squashed
  • salt

Instructions
 

  • In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, heat the olive oil with the garlic, shallot and bouquet garni. After 2 minutes, add the tomatoes and tomato paste, sugar and peppercorns. Simmer gently for about 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
  • Remove the bouquet garni and whiz the contents of the pan in a blender until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
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Velouté legumière autumn

Servings 6 persons

Ingredients
  

Soup

  • 1 piece leek mirepoix
  • 0,5 piece pumpkin mirepoix, unpealed
  • 0,25 piece celeriac mirepoix
  • 0,5 piece turnip mirepoix
  • 1 piece salsify thin slices
  • 4 pieces carrots mirepoix
  • 0,5 piece onion mirepoix
  • 1 piece mushroom thin slices
  • 0,25 piece green cabbage thin strips
  • 0,5 liter milk
  • 0,15 liter cream
  • 2 dl stock chicken or vegetable
  • 25 grams butter
  • 1 piece bayleave
  • 2 leave sage
  • olive oil

Garnish

  • 0,1 liter cream
  • 0,25 liter crème fraîche

Instructions
 

  • Place the milk with stock and cream over a low heat. Add the butter and a few wisps of olive oil.
  • Meanwhile, cut the vegetables and place them in a bowl so that they look nice.
  • When the milk boils, add the vegetables and crosses. Some salt and pepper and let the vegetables cook over a low heat.
  • When everything is cooked, remove the bay leaf from the milk and put it all in the blender. Grind everything well and add some milk or stock if necessary. The soup should have a thick texture. Season with salt and pepper.
  • Put the cream with some creme fraiche and salt in the whipped cream syringe.
  • Put the soup in a plate and pipe a dollop of cream/creme fraiche on top. Finish with a drizzle of olive oil and serve.
Source: Alain Passard
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Simple tomato sauce

Servings 8 persons

Ingredients
  

  • 1 bunch fresh basil
  • 1 piece onion
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 kg tomatoes, ripe
  • olive oil
  • 1 tblsp ballsamic vinegar

Instructions
 

  • Pick the basil leaves. Save some small leaves to garnish the pasta later. Chop the basil leaves and stem coarsely with a sharp knife.
  • Peel the onion and garlic and chop into fine slices. Wash the fresh tomatoes and remove the crowns. Then cut them into cubes.
  • Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Fry the onion in the warm olive oil for 7 minutes or until it is soft and light golden brown. Add the garlic and basil stalks and fry them with the onions for a few minutes.
  • Stir in the tomatoes, a pinch of sea salt and the wine vinegar. Stir the basil leaves into the tomatoes and cook the sauce gently for 10 minutes.
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Celeriac in salty crust

Ingredients
  

  • 1 liter buttermilk
  • 200 ml water
  • 1 piece large celeriac scrubbed clean
  • 6 pieces white onions
  • 3 tbsp. sunflower oil
  • 2 tbsp. sherry vinegar
  • Handful of lemon thyme
  • 50 g cheese, Gouda
  • 2 tbsp. butter

Instructions
 

  • Place a cheesecloth in a sieve and pour in the buttermilk. Leave the buttermilk covered in the refrigerator to drain overnight and collect the moisture. Then reduce the liquid in about 30 minutes to a nice sauce thickness.
  • Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Mix the salt with water to a kind of sticky mass. Put the celeriac in an oven dish in a layer of salt and then cover the tuber completely under the salt, it will cook in the oven for about 3 hours. Turn off the oven and let the celeriac stand overnight. Then tap the celeriac out of the salt and brush off any leftover salt.
  • Finely chop 5 1/2 white onions. Heat a pan with 2 tbsp. oil, add the finely chopped onions, a little salt and sherry vinegar and let it cook for about 5 hours on a low heat below the boiling point until it becomes a kind of sweet caramelized chutney.
  • Heat the oven to grill setting. Cut the remaining half white onion into wafer-thin slices, drizzle with some oil and grill until the edges turn black.
  • Cut off the skin of the celeriac, halve and cut into 8 slices. Place the celeriac slices in a baking dish, spoon over some of the onion compote, grate over the Gouda cheese spread, sprinkle with lemon thyme and au gratin under a hot grill. Heat the buttermilk sauce and assemble it by adding butter and whisking with an immersion blender until fluffy. Season with salt and pepper.
  • Spoon 2 slices of celeriac on 4 plates, and add some of the buttermilk foam with a spoon. Serve with optional. some herb salad to make it a bit fresher.
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Green gaspacho

Servings 6 persons

Ingredients
  

grated frozen feta

  • 100 g feta

Soup

  • 400 g fennel
  • 900 g green zuccini
  • 400 g green peas
  • 70 g parsely
  • 200 g spinach
  • 150 g shallots
  • 230 g olive oil
  • 1 piece green lemon zestes
  • 1 piece yellow lemon zestes
  • sea salt

Juice

  • 450 g fennel
  • 300 g Granny Smith apple
  • 50 g celery

Finishing

  • 12 pieces mini asparagus
  • 6 pieces cucumber flowers
  • 6 pieces chive flowers
  • green peas
  • 12 tranches porc belly
  • some fava beans

Instructions
 

Grated frozen feta

  • Freeze the feta, then grate it with a cheese grater. Reserve in an airtight box in the freezer until use.

Soup

  • Peel and cut the fennel and zucchini into small dice about 2 cm apart, all the same size. Peel and mince the shallots. Cook the fennel in boiling salted water about 5 min or until tender. Blanch the peas for about 2 min in boiling water, the zucchini for 4 min, the parsley and spinach for 2 min and finally the shallots for 6 min. Dip them all in ice water, then place them on paper towels to dry them as much as possible. Reserve cold vegetables in the refrigerator.
    Place all the vegetables in the bowl of a blender with the ice cubes (reserve a few blanched peas for the dressing) and the lemon zest. Puree them by adding olive oil slowly. Make sure to keep the mash cold throughout the process. Salt and set aside in the fridge.

Juice

  • Make a juice with the fennel, apples and celery using a juicer. Filter the liquid through a coffee filter, cheesecloth, or fine linens. Reserve in the refrigerator.

Finishing

  • Season the soup base with the soup juice and mix gently. Salt if necessary. In a deep plate, harmoniously arrange the asparagus, cucumber flowers, blanched peas and broad beans as well as the thin slices of belly. Drop 1 spoon of frozen feta, then pour the soup to the table, just before serving.
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Tomato ketchup

Servings 0.5 liter

Ingredients
  

  • olive oil
  • 500 pieces tomatoes coeur de boeuf chopped
  • 3 pieces red onions chopped
  • 6 cloves garlic chopped
  • 80 g tomato paste
  • 100 g brown caster sugar
  • 50 ml red wine vinegar
  • paprika powder
  • sea salt
  • black pepper

Instructions
 

  • Heat (medium) a pan with the a little olive oil and add the tomato, onion and garlic. Cook for 5 minutes. Add the tomato paste, sugar, vinegar, parpika powder, salt and pepper and let simmer for 1 hour.
  • Blend the mixture in a blender or hand blender and cook again for a few minutes. Pour the ketchup into sterilized pots and cool down quickly.
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Pinapple tacos

Servings 12 tacos

Ingredients
  

Filling

  • 0,5 piece pineapple peeled, cored and diced
  • 150 g sugar
  • 50 g cornstarch

Dough

  • 500 g flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 2,25 teaspoon dry yeast
  • 5 tablespoons white sugar
  • 200 ml milk
  • 150 g cold butter diced
  • 5 tablespoons sour cream
  • 1 pieces egg yolk beaten

Instructions
 

Filling

  • Combine the pineapple dices and sugar in a saucepan and mix well. Bring to a boil and reduce while simmering until the pineapple is cooked and tender.Combine the cornstarch and 2 tablespoons water and add to the mixture in the pan and stir will. Let is cook for a few more minutes to reach a consistency of jam. Let it cool down.

Dough

  • Mix the flour, baking powder, dry yeast, sugar and salt in a bowl. Pour over half of the milk, mix well and let it stand for 15 minutes.
  • Add the butter and sour cream and work them into the flour mixture. Use your hands to form a crumble. Add milk to knead the dough to a smooth dough. Cover it with a towel and let it sit for 1 hour.
  • Lightly flour your workface, divide the dough in half and roll out one half into a 30 cm square. Cut into 4 stripes, then cut each strip into 6 equal pieces.
  • Spoon a little pineapple mixtue into the centre of each rectangle and fold both corners of the long sides and press towards the center. Do the same with the remaining rectangles.
  • Preheat the oven to 200°C. Brush the cakes with egg yolk and bake the tacos for 20 minutes until golden brown. Let them cool down.
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Corn tortillas

Servings 6 tortillas

Ingredients
  

  • 450 g masa harina (corn flour)
  • 0,25 teaspoon sea salt
  • 250 g water

Instructions
 

  • Combine the masa harina, salt and water. Stir until you get a moist, but not sticky, dough. Put them in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  • Shape the dough into balls to the size of a golf ball. Roll out the balls on a lightly floured surface. Keep the shape round and roll until paper thin and a diameter of about 12 cm. Stack them up interleaved with non sticking paper.
  • Heat a flat pan without oil and cook the tortillas in about 2-3 minutes on each side until they are golden brown.
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Tortilla soup

Servings 6 persons

Ingredients
  

Soup

  • 1 tablespoon lard or olive oil
  • 3 cloves garlic sliced
  • 2 pieces onions sliced
  • 100 g fine polenta
  • 1 tablespoon chipotle chiles in adobo
  • 800 g plum tomatoes
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon dried oregano or fresh
  • sea salt and pepper
  • 1,5 liter chicken or vegetable stock

To garnish

  • 1 piece ripe avocado
  • lemon or lime juice
  • 300 ml vegetable oil
  • 2 corn tortillas or 2 chaparis
  • 2 pieces ancho chiles seeds and stems removed
  • 100 g feta cheese crumbled
  • 1 small handful cilantro (coriander) leaves coriander leaves, chopped
  • 120 g sour cream

Instructions
 

  • Heat the lard or oil in a large saucepan, add the onions, and sweat over medium heat for 10-15 minutes, until the onion is completely soft before adding the garlic. Add the cornmeal (polenta) and continue cooking for 5 minutes before adding the chipotles, the tomatoes sugar oregano and stock, and simmer for another 10 minutes.
  • Process in a food processor or blender until the soup is smooth.
  • Warm over low heat for at least 5 minutes before serving.
  • Meanwhile, assemble all the garnishes for the soup. Halve the avocado, remove the pit, peel, and dice the flesh, sprinkling with a little lemon or lime juice to stop it from discoloring.
  • Heat the vegetable oil in a deep skillet or frying pan and cut the flat breads into thin, short 3-cm strips. Tear up the ancho chiles into coarse pieces. Test the oil and, when it is shimmering hot (and makes a tortilla strip sizzle), add the strips and cook until crisp and golden. Remove the pieces with a slotted spoon on a plate lined with paper towels, then fry the ancho chile pieces until they have puffed up.
  • This takes only a few seconds, so watch them carefully and try not to burn them or you will Iose their lovely sweetness. Serve the soup in bowls with all the garnishes laid out in small bowls.
Source: Mexico, the cookbook
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